Love Child

von Sue Elliott

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Adoption is one of the great untold stories of our recent past. It is a truly epic tale of loss guilt identity family feuds reunion and redemption. It is a subject until very recently surrounded by secrecy and taboos. This is the heart-warming true story of a little girl's adoption in the 1950s and her search nearly forty years later for her birth mother. When mother and daughter meet Sue thinks she has finally reached the end of her journey. Then Sue discovers she wasn't the only baby her mother gave away ...Weaved throughout is the vivid emotional history of adoption in the UK. Drawing on a wide range of intimate personal experiences it outlines the forces that shaped 20th century adoption practice from baby-farming the stigma of illegitimacy incest and the bastardy laws to children taken by force the Magdalene laundries mass emigration schemes without parental consent to modern day adoption practices buying babies from abroad sperm donor fathers and tearful reunions on Trisha.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9780091947644
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2012
• Größe: 198 x 126 mm
• Verlag: Vermilion